Your Questions and the Science of Sword Swallowing

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2009

⏱️ 58 minutes

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We get to the point of cutting edge Naked Science this week, answering your science questions and exploring the science of sword swallowing. We find out how the Amazon rainforest could become a carbon criminal, learn how to predict the extent of an avalanche, and celebrate the passing of DD45 - an object that floated past the Earth within the orbit of the Moon. Plus, we find out if you can catch foot odour, if a bath full of vodka would get you drunk, and the delights of Liver A L'Orange! Meera Senthilingam takes a 'thinking walk' with Sir David Attenborough to learn about Charles Darwin,... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Boldly going where no science show has gone before.
0:05.0	The Naked Scientists.
0:09.0	Hello, welcome to this week's naked scientists with me, Chris Smith and also with Katani.
0:17.0	Hello, Ken.
0:18.0	Hello? And we're Dave Ant, oh, hi Dave.
0:19.0	Hi, Chris.
0:20.0	Now, this week, worrying news from the Amazon rainforest why our biggest carbon ally could
0:25.3	soon become a massive carbon criminal and that's owing to accelerated greenhouse effects that's
0:30.4	what could happen also are you a fire risk? Or at least are you
0:34.0	predisposed to becoming a smoker? Scientists have pinpointed a clutch of
0:37.0	genes that could make people prone to lighting up. And also how scientists have
0:41.0	discovered that Jupiter could be in the habit of eating its moons.
0:44.6	What a case of indigestion, Kat.
0:47.0	Speaking of indigestion, anyway, we'll also be coming up, we'll be hearing about the asteroid
0:52.2	that brushed past the Earth
0:53.2	earlier this week inside the moon's orbit. Croyky! We'll also be meeting the man who
0:58.6	routinely does this. You have to repress the gag reflex at first, then you have to flip back your
1:03.8	epiglottis in your throat. Repress the parestolysis reflex which is
1:07.6	22 pairs of muscles that swallows your food all the way down to your stomach.
1:10.5	Nudge your heart to the left, then relax your lower esophageal sphincter just before it goes into
1:15.9	the stomach then repress the retch reflex in the stomach so there's a lot to it.
1:20.3	No he wasn't eating a bit of my mother's
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